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They are. I picked up three Guarder bodies as an experiment. Added Guarder outlet valves and 9Ball routers. Postives • Very lightweight. You can really feel the difference. • Look cool • Guarder bottoms are gas-tight and have silent fill inlet valves Negatives • there seems to be a tiny gap where the feed lips sit and every now and again the bb’s fail to feed. I’m going to scratch my chin for a while and then fill in the gap with some JB weld. So in summary, if you’re after fancy, lightweight mags that don’t feed properly they’re brilliant Im sure I can get them feeding but I feel like I shouldn’t have to for the asking price

Parts bin special...

Deep down, all I really want is for Luke to call me a C£&t when I get to play at the new Zed adventures site

Well that escalated quickly... Was browsing Eliteshooting and emailed Mike for a 0.40S&W 5.1 barrel. Ended getting another TM 5.1 frame and a black Infinity slide

Duct tape must have cost something too?

Cheers Steve, Your black and gold Infinity looks smart as! I’ve gone Gold slide, gold controls and black everything else for my BC4.3, what did you go for?

There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the Nov brand but it’s basically just externally tweaked OEM stuff sold at a premium price with fairly poor quality control and wildly varying customer support. Even after being disappointed by the products, I’m still amazed by Chris as a sales person. Snow to an Eskimo as they say!

Bugger me! Got bored two nights ago and bought some stuff from AIP, namely a couple of hop units and guide rods. Theyve already landed at Heathrow

Too right! Yours has been one of those voices over the years that’s clearly HAD all the issues as opposed to having read something 3rd hand on the internet. Advice like that is always priceless and you and sittingduck are largely to thank for the fact that my wankerguns actually work. GBB’s though, this is new to me. The brands are different and the informed are far more difficult to find. It seems funny at this point that the part that works reliably is the same that shipped originally with the Novristch!

God this rabbit hole goes deep. So, Guarder parts aren’t quite the high-tolerance parts I had imagined. Three mags with Guarder feed lips have occasional feed issues with two Bb’s wedging themselves at the base of the lip. I’ve stuck a KJ lip in and voila, problem solved. At £3.79 a go for the KJW’s I can’t be bothered to sort the Guarder ones out. Hopefully, Kyle at HCH will have an Advanced Frame for me at some point in the next couple of weeks so I’ve got something new to play with

There’s a good rule of thumb on this forum worth sticking to - If it’s your only pew, leave it alone. If you’ve got a few bits and pieces, why not have a crack at it. The ICS L85 gearbox is a piece of cake to work on all controls are housed externally and the spring can be inserted after closing the box. The variable spring tension system makes fine tuning the power easy as pie, just make sure you’ve got a chronograph to check output. The receiver has bags of space for a rewire straight from motor to fore grip and the connection to the trigger contacts is a standard 2.8mm spade (might be a 4mm, been a while) so it’s almost perfectly suited to a Gate nano/merf/warfet. The task gets more complex the higher the rof you want to achieve. The forum’s other rule of twenty is plenty neatly avoids almost all of the issues with high speed builds self destructing, although if you want to pursue a true wanker gun build SittingDuck is a seemingly bottomless source of wisdom on how to unfuck things If you just want to nudge the ROF up a bit, you may find that using 11.1v does just that. If you want a bit more, the next place to investigate would either be motor or gearset. The ICS motor pinions always had a tendency to not play particularly well with others so you may have to change both. The ICS compression parts (piston head/cylinder/cylinder head/nozzle) were excellent in terms of seal and shouldn’t need any more than lubricant to work very well. What’s the ideal outcome?

Just the one

With my wallet well and truly battered, here are the fruits of my labour. The Novristch is now sporting an Airsoft masterpiece Mega lightweight slide, short stroke kit and side mounted RMR. It’s quick, very quick The Limcat has been a bit of fun and is a scratchbuild. Both are finished in tungsten grey accents with grey Airsoft masterpiece slides Just to add, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’ve felt lucky to have not only the incredible knowledge base of you toxic bastards at my disposal, but also the frank and impartial advice of Mike (http://www.eliteshootingcentre.co.uk)and Kyle (https://hicapahub.co.uk) neither of whom mince words or stock anything they wouldn’t use in a build. Better see if anything is on the way for the Battlecat 4.3 that I’m making next...

Parts back from FMJUK, I think I can finally call these two HiCapas finished!

TOXIC!!! (are we still doing this?)

But now when you come to sell, it's had two custom paintjobs. One at Patrolbase and one out back here with a can of Krylon. God knows how many "airsmiths" have been involved now. £500?

I feel like “Toxic” has become the go to word for a generation who don’t know how to handle criticism or confrontation nor have they developed the interpersonal skills to simply hold a differing opinion on a matter without feeling the need to “out” the other party as wrong. I for one am offended and demand this is stopped now. Macks is part of the rich cultural tapestry of AFUK and this thinly veiled attack is no less than an assault on an institution

They’re a pretty discriminatory lot. My AK identifies as an M4 and someone on this thread threatened to burn me as a witch. Might need thicker skin for this place

Whenever it ends up being, I’m still very much looking forwards to meeting you all, and shooting at you Is there going to be a mandatory 2m minimum engagement or do melee kills count, but potentially do damage over time

Shout out to Kyle at Hi-Capa hub. He's been beyond helpful with my new search for 4.3 parts. We're a bit spoilt now, what with Mike at Elite and Kyle at Hub both being super helpful and incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to tweaky high-end Hi-Capa stuff

I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than the blanket “no, fuck you” that some EU sites seem to be using for UK orders...

...bought more stuff, haven’t I? From an initial goal of rebuilding a SSP1 that had started to fall to bits Ive now put in the orders to put together a fourth. So, I saw a preorder for the Airsoft Masterpiece Battlecat 4.3 and now I’ve got all the bits for a black and gold Battlecat ordered. EXCEPT 4.3 rear sight. Where the fudge do you buy a 4.3 rear sight?

New slide in place, needs a bit of use to get it running as smoothly as I would like it to. Overall, it’s glitzy enough and seems to be chronoing fine at 330fps on Red gas. FPS drops rapidly after a few shots but it’s 4* outside and my bench is right next to a draughty fire escape. Front sight needs glueing and the magwells still aren’t here..

Although I’m growing less fond of that Begadi Alu slide, it’s not to blame. The RMR mount’s only fixture point was the screw into the bbu. Aside that, it just rests on the slide. I’ve got a 3D printed one from elite that has the same tabs that the standard rear sights use as well as the screw and it stayed in place fine. Just a shame it was fuck ugly... Either way, the RMR+mount adds around 50g to the weight of the slide, so I think I’m going to stick to the side mount option. Should have an Airsoft Masterpiece Mega slide tomorrow to slap on there too